New material can be used to better implement quantum computer qubits

The goal of one day realizing truly efficient quantum computers is getting closer and closer, and step by step discoveries are made about the materials that need to be used to build such a computer.

A research group at Johns Hopkins University has discovered that a certain superconducting material has “special” properties, as Yufan Li, a researcher at Johns Hopkins’ Institute of Physics and Astronomy and author of a study published in Science, found.

Quantum computers are based on the Qubit. As Chia-Ling Chien, professor of physics and another author of the study, explains: “A more realistic and tangible implementation of the qubit can be a ring made of superconducting material called a flow qubit, in which two states with currents can exist simultaneously, clockwise and counterclockwise current.”

Researchers have found that such a ring already exists in the ideal state and is as efficient as Li explains: “A ring of β-Bi2Pd already exists in the ideal state and requires no additional modification to function. It could be a turning point.”

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Janice Walker is a biologist (having graduated from Prescott College in 2013) and an experienced writer. She currently works as a pharmacist, contributing research and content to ScienceOfChange.org during her nights and weekends. During her time at Prescott College she was an active contributor to her student journal and hopes to grow ScienceOfChange.org up as a well established, popular science blog.
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